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  2. Devonshire Hunting Tapestries - Wikipedia

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    William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire used the cut tapestries to insulate the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in the 1840s. [2] [3] [13] During a visit to Hardwick in 1899, Arthur Long convinced the seventh Duke of Devonshire to let the Victoria & Albert Museum restore the tapestries. [3] The restoration began in 1900 and ended ...

  3. Hardwick Hall - Wikipedia

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    Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick , it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson , an exponent of the Renaissance style .

  4. Bess of Hardwick - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Hardwick was the daughter of John Hardwick of Derbyshire by his wife Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox. [4] Her exact birthdate is unknown, occurring in the period 1521 to 1527; that said, according to her witness statement under oath [5] at a court hearing in October 1546, in which she gives her age at the time of her first marriage in May 1543 as being "of ...

  5. The Story of Abraham (tapestries) - Wikipedia

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    Five of the tapestries were rehung in the great hall in 1841, with a further two being rehung at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. [2] By 1884 the condition of a number of tapestries at Hampton Court, including the Story of Abraham series, had reached parliament and the Treasury granted a sum of £400 for 13 needle-women to complete ...

  6. Santina M. Levey - Wikipedia

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    Levey regularly visited Norfolk's The Textile Conservation Studio, which saw work being done on embroideries from Hardwick Hall, producing related volumes, focusing on Elizabethan textiles, [13] Bess of Hardwick's inventories, [14] and a catalog on exquisite embroidery needlework and other materials such as the tapestries. [15]

  7. Oxburgh Hangings - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery of "A Catte", worked by Mary, Queen of Scots, and now displayed at Holyrood Palace The King's Room, Oxburgh Hall. The Oxburgh Hangings are needlework bed hangings that are held in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary's captivity in England.

  8. Pieter van Aelst III - Wikipedia

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    The mark 'pva' of his workshop appears on four tapestry series, which were made in collaboration with others: on five of eight History of Noah tapestries (Wawel Castle, Kraków), on seven of 10 History of Abraham tapestries, after designs from the circle Bernard van Orley (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), on two of eight History of Odysseus tapestries (Hardwick Hall, Derbys, NT) and on three ...

  9. Portal:Clothing/Selected biography/10 - Wikipedia

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    The 400-year-old collection, now known as the Hardwick Hall textiles, is the largest collection of tapestry, embroidery, canvaswork, and other textiles to have been preserved by a single private family.